The question shouldn’t be who benefitted from Birdsall Services Group’s cash for contracts scheme – but who didn’t.

The Eatontown engineering firm made tens of thousands of dollars in political contributions to Monmouth County politicians of all political backgrounds.

Between 2008 and 2012, The Star-Ledger reported, Birdsall made 209 contributions to municipal and county candidates, campaigns and committees totaling $161,505 in Monmouth County. Of that sum, $111,515 went to Republicans, $41,740 to Democrats and $8,250 to independent and non-partisan candidates.

The Star-Ledger also reported that Birdsall made a total of 57 contributions in a five-year period to Monmouth County Democrats, the largest single donation being a $4,000 contribution to Monmouth Democracy for a cocktail reception in honor of Marlboro Democratic Committee Chairman Frank LaRocca.

In the same period, the company made 144 contributions to Republican causes, the largest single donations being several $3,000 gifts to various committees, mostly for ceremonies and events.

The Birdsall scandal, in which thousands of dollars in political donations were doled out in politicians throughout New Jersey in exchange for lucrative government contracts, has led to the sale of the company and a rash of indictments, as well as accusations of unethical conduct between politicians.

Democratic Freeholder Candidate Brian Froelich was one of the first in Monmouth County to launch an attack based on the Birdsall scandal.

Froelich, who along with fellow Democrat Lawrence Luttrell will challenge incumbent Republicans Thomas Arnone and Serena DiMaso, has made accusations of corruption one of the centerpieces of his campaign thus far.

This is why the Monmouth County Republican Freeholders wouldn’t tell us if they received any money from Birdsall- because they did,” Froelich wrote in a blog post on Patch.com over the weekend. “In November the voters’ broom will sweep clean the Freeholder/Birdsall mess.”

Froelich has previously confronted Monmouth County Freeholders at a May meeting, challenging them to reveal their donations from Birdsall employees.

Arnone said that Froelich should look at members of his own party before he starts accusing Republicans.

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“He can make any accusation he wants,” Arnone said. “Mr. Froelich should think about talking about his political reasons for doing this – just as many Democratic firms used Birdsall as Republicans, if he wants to come to the Freeholders with these accusations, he should also go to all the municipalities that used Birdsall, too.”

A tally of The Star-Ledger’s reporting finds that current Monmouth County Freeholders Arnone and DiMaso, along with Lillian Burry, Gary Rich and John Curley, received $19,600 in Birdsall donations between 2008 and 2012 as both Freeholders and municipal leaders.

Arnone argued the donations had no effect on Birdsall’s success securing county contracts.

“If it was a municipality, it warrants a story – municipalities hire engineering firms for a long-term basis,” Arnone said. “Ours is a bid process that they have to go through, and that process is independent from the Freeholders.”

At the time Birdsall’s indictments were handed down, the company had 10 open contracts with Monmouth County in the amount of $1.617 million, county spokesperson Laura Kirkpatrick told Patch.com, a fraction of its annual public works and engineering budgets.